After the elections in the Czech Republic, Warsaw wants to resume dialogue on the so-called "territorial debt." This concerns 368 hectares of territory that, according to agreements from the 1950s, remained on the Czech side of the border.
The issue concerns lands in the area of the Biała Woda community and the village of Bodzanów in the Głuchołazy community, writes "European Truth," citing the Polish portal Fakt.
At that time, Poland and Czechoslovakia adjusted the interstate border. Poland ceded 1,205 hectares in favor of the Czech Republic and received 837 hectares in return. There are still 368 hectares that have not been compensated to Poland to this day.
The issue has been periodically recalled in recent years, and an intergovernmental commission was even created to address it. In 2015, the Czech Republic approved a list of plots that could be transferred to Poland, but negotiations stalled thereafter.
In 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attempted to raise the issue again, but the then Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš – who now has a chance to win the elections – did not have a clear position on the matter.
Unnamed sources from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that Warsaw hopes to resume consultations at the expert level. The goal will be to clarify the positions of the parties regarding how to resolve the issue of the "territorial debt." Warsaw also wants to obtain information from the Czech side about the reasons for the suspension of negotiations in 2015.
In the period leading up to the elections, this was decided against, so the issue would not become one of the topics of the election campaign.
